Cotton and Collin both start with "Co"!
And they are both bad-ass! However one is not human.
Two similarities!
EDIT: THEY ARE BOTH NOT HUMAN! Very very similar!
1) The ideological father of Egypt's (the cradle of cotton) revolutionary movement attended school in Colorado (Greeley).
2) After his initial education in Colorado, the patriarch of K-State's offense once attended/bought a corn dog at the Miss Missouri pageant in Lebanon, Missouri.
Also, I know more about Sayyid Qutb than I do Collin Klein, so one of those may not only be a real stretch as an analogy, but also made up based on somebody else I know (who had an equal but opposite reaction to bare female legs).